Bird's Eye View

PETER BURLING is in da HOUSE! The crew caught up with Pete for Season 2, Episode 2, and asked him some REALLY important questions! Tune in, have a watch and listen as Pete tells us what he would rescue in a fire. "Bird’s Eye View is sponsored by Appliances Online – New Zealand’s home of Legendary Service for top-brand appliances with free delivery and removal, 24/7 customer support, and price match guarantee. Visit appliancesonline.co.nz and sail through your next appliance purchase."

General Manager of our new sponsor appliancesonline.co.nz Troy Tindill is our Season 2, Episode 1 guest and talks all things sailing from when he was a youngster in Howick to running the 100 footer Wild Oats XI and more! "Bird’s Eye View is sponsored by Appliances Online – New Zealand’s home of Legendary Service for top-brand appliances with free delivery and removal, 24/7 customer support, and price match guarantee. Visit appliancesonline.co.nz and sail through your next appliance purchase."

Leo Takahashi is in da house! Leo joins us for the Season 1 finale episode and takes a deep dive into his humble beginnings, America's Cup, Olympics, SailGP and the upcoming PredictWind Moth World Championships. "Bird's Eye View is sponsored by andoo: New Zealand's home of feel good living. With free next day delivery and price match guarantee, feel good about your appliances & furniture with Andoo"

British foiling phenomenon Hattie Rogers is in New Zealand for the PredictWind Moth World Championships and joins us for Episode 10 of the Live Sail Die Bird's Eye View podcast proudly supported by andoo! D'Arcy, Joey, and Barbara chat with Hattie about everything from Optimists, Waszps, Moths, and AC40s! "Bird's Eye View is sponsored by andoo: New Zealand's home of feel good living. With free next day delivery and price match guarantee, feel good about your appliances & furniture with Andoo"

SPECIAL EDITION!!! Gybe Mark Joey Allen and Suellen from Live Sail Die recorded this special edition episode while on the road for the Toyota Kiwi Cup Tour where we took the America's Cup around New Zealand for 19 days. Hear some great stories from the tour and from when Joey was part of the winning New Zealand team in 1995 and 2000.

Matty Mitchell has raced in six America’s Cup campaigns and been in the winning team three times – Team New Zealand, Alinghi, and Oracle Team USA, but at the end of the day, he just loves sailing his Zephyr!

Olympic Silver Medalist Jan Shearer is our next guest on the microphone with D'Arcy Waldegrave, Barbara Kendall and Gybe Mark Joey Allen.  Jan competed for New Zealand at three Olympic Games and won a silver medal, with Leslie Egnot, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, in the women's 470 class. Jan is a life member of Yachting NZ and Takapuna Boating Club. She was appointed to the Tennis NZ Board in 2012, in 2016 Shearer was elected to the board of Snow Sports NZ, and in 2017 to the Board of Canoe Racing NZ as Chair, and Board member of Melanoma NZ. She spent 20 years working as a mechanical engineer as design consultant. She changed career in 2011 after living in Europe and spent 5 years as Head of Performance at Tennis NZ, then 3 years as CEO of Snow Sports NZ and is currently CEO of NZ Water Polo.

Tony Mutter! This guy has done six laps of the planet but it all started in the P Class. Hear how this unsung hero of Kiwi sailing got into the sport and how he describes some of the crazy moments in his offshore sailing career.  Hosted by D'Arcy Waldegrave, "Olympian for Life" Barbara Kendall, and Gybe Mark Joey Allen, Bird's Eye View is a podcast by Live Sail Die proudly supported by andoo.

Olympic Silver Medalist Isaac McHardie was in the house!!! Fresh from his first Olympic Games, 49er helm and all round nice guy Isaac McHardie joined us in our studio in the Crows Nest at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron to talk about that moment when he and Will (McKenzie) realised they were medalists, and how it all began back in the Optimist and P Class. Hosted by D'Arcy Waldegrave, "Olympian for Life" Barbara Kendall, and Gybe Mark Joey Allen, Bird's Eye View is a podcast by Live Sail Die proudly supported by andoo.

D’Arcy Waldegrave is joined by New Zealand’s "Olympian for Life", Barbara Kendall, and America’s Cup winning bowman and winging wanna-be, Joey Allen as they chat with incoming Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron Commodore, and the first female Commodore ever for the club, Gillian Williams. "Bird's Eye View is sponsored by andoo: New Zealand's home of feel good living. With free next day delivery and price match guarantee, feel good about your appliances & furniture with Andoo"